Whatever I loved that show. Hmph.

Leah Remini is no longer an actress. Her real job now is trolling the shit out of scientology and I love her for it! Get ‘em!!

Imagine wanting this guy to join your religion*

I know, that’s why I’d like to see it happen!

I worked at an HIV service organization, and I’ve heard stories about clients whose family members found pill bottles and googled the name of the med— and then kicked that person out, or even threw all their belongings into the yard and set them on fire, or posted it on facebook to let EVERYONE THEY KNOW find out. And…

Right, but not every HIV positive person is gay, and the idea that they are is part of the stigmatization of HIV.

I’m 27 and a some of my mail still ends up at my parents house or old apartments, since I move apartments sometimes. If any of these thousands of people have transitory housing, who knows who could see it.

Pawning it off on the contractor would definitely be the smartest strategy, as they can say the didn’t expect the contractor to be that stupid, and the contractor can act like it was in over its head. There is literally no reason to pretend a mistake wasn’t made.

Ugh. Insurance companies are devil’s spawn. A lot of people don’t realize that Michael Moore’s movie Sicko wasn’t even about the millions of uninsured Americans, it was about insured ones who couldn’t get their legit claims covered. So in other words, all those people helped by the ACA can now anticipate getting…

Also anyone who lives with them, and sometimes neighbors, depending on the setup and how often the carrier makes mistakes (basically half my mail goes to my neighbors’ mail).

Question: Are insurance companies bound by HIPAA the same way that healthcare providers are? I see minor violations left and right on a daily basis, but I feel like if anything of this magnitude happened at a hospital, every provider would be stripped of their licensed and fined a lot.

I used to work for Aetna and I can confirm they use a third party vendor for all of their correspondence. While the letter did come from Aetna, the envelopes and fulfillment did not so I am guessing that they are not admitting responsibility since technically they didn’t make the error. They will probably be held…

Mail gets misdelivered sometimes. The postal staff sees it. And, probably most importantly, people who live with you will see it. Most people’s families will know about their health conditions, but I’m guessing there’s a really high correlation between people who haven’t told their families they’re HIV positive and…

It’s probably for ads or something. Or the paper supply company sent the wrong envelopes and somebody just had to have his deadline/quota bonus (or was on thin ice and though getting something done extra quickly would look good, I guess).

I’d guess it’s something to do with liability, i.e., if I accidentally give the wrong person your sensitive information over the phone, it’s my fault, but hey, the envelope was addressed to you so once I drop it in the box it’s outta my hands. Still silly IMO.

The crazy thing is that they’re fighting it. If they moved straight to settlement, they’d have benefited from the goodwill of people assuming that it was some manager having a brain fart and subbing in whatever was on hand when his department ran out of the envelopes they usually use (there are pictures online showing…

Insurance companies could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave. and America still won’t dump them for single payer. Of course Insurance companies have killed way more people than that.

This is only semi-related, but it is so bizarre to me how we treat mail as magically private. I needed an account number for something recently, so I went on to my bank’s site, logged in, and I couldn’t find it. I went to my electronic statements looked there, but it only had the last three or digits and the rest were…

Welp, they’re getting sued.